awesome-rust

Awesome Rust

A curated list of awesome Rust frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-go.

Contributing

Please take a quick gander at the contribution guidelines first. Thanks to all contributors; you rock!

Table of contents

• Applications
  • Audio
  • CI/CD Runners
  • Container Engines
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Database
  • Emails
  • Emulators
  • Games
  • Media
  • Graphics
  • Industrial automation
  • Operating systems
  • Productivity
  • Security tools
  • System tools
  • Text editors
  • Text processing
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Virtualization
  • Window managers
  • Web
  • Web Servers
• Development tools
  • Build system
  • Debugging
  • Deployment
  • Embedded
  • FFI
  • IDEs
  • Pattern recognition
  • Profiling
  • Services
  • Static analysis
  • Testing
  • Transpiling
• Libraries
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Genetic algorithms
    • Machine learning
  • Astronomy
  • Asynchronous
  • Audio
  • Authentication
  • Automotive
  • Bioinformatics
  • Caching
  • Cloud
  • Command-line
  • Compression
  • Computation
  • Concurrency
  • Configuration
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • Data processing
  • Data structures
  • Data visualization
  • Date and time
  • Distributed systems
  • Email
  • Encoding
  • Filesystem
  • Game development
  • Geospatial
  • Graphics
  • Graph processing
  • GUI
  • Image processing
  • Industrial automation
  • Language specification
  • Logging
  • Macro
  • Markup language
  • Mobile
  • Network programming
  • Parsing
  • Peripherals
  • Platform specific
  • Robotics
  • Scripting
  • Template engine
  • Text processing
  • Text search
  • Unsafe
  • Virtualization
  • Web programming
• Registries
• Resources
• License

Applications

See also Friends of Rust (Organizations running Rust in production) and Rust Companies (A curated list of companies using Rust in production).

• alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
• asm-cli-rust — interative assembly shell written in rust.
• AnderEnder/s3find-rs — A command line utility to walk an Amazon S3 hierarchy, an analog of find for Amazon S3
• cloudflare/boringtun — A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
• denoland/deno — A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
• ivanceras/diwata — A database administration tool for postgresql
• linkerd/linkerd2-proxy — Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
• darrint/device-blocker — Limit screen time to children's various mobile devices by blocking internet access on the family Wifi router.
• dlecan/generic-dns-update — A tool to update DNS zonefiles with your IP address
• Factotum — A system to programmatically run data pipelines
• fcsonline/drill — A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
• ferrum-cli — Rust-native local LLM inference with Metal, CUDA, and OpenAI-compatible serving.
• Fractalide — Simple Rust Microservices
• gitside — A VS Code-inspired source-control panel for the terminal.
• habitat — An tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
• Herd — an experimental HTTP load testing application
• intecture/api — an API-driven server management and configuration tool
• jedisct1/flowgger — A fast, simple and lightweight data collector
• kbknapp/docli — A command line utility for managing DigitalOcean infrastructure
• limonite — static blog/website generator
• MaidSafe — A decentralized platform.
• mdBook — A command line utility to create books from markdown files
• Moresyl/dsh-studio — Cross-platform desktop studio for installing, supervising, and managing DeepSeek Harness.
• nicohman/eidolon — A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
• nika — Intent-as-code workflow engine for AI: reviewable YAML DAGs statically checked (schema, permits, honest cost floor) before any token is spent. Single binary.
• notty — A new kind of terminal
• Pijul — A patch-based distributed version control system
• rsign — A simple command-line tool used to generate/sign/verify digital signatures designed to be compatible with Minisign
• Sandstorm Collections App
• Servo — A prototype web browser engine
• trust-dns — A DNS-server
• Tura — A local, open-source coding agent with terminal, TUI, and desktop interfaces.
• Weld — Full fake REST API generator
• kytan - High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN
• WezTerm — A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Audio

• indiscipline/zrtstr — A command line utility for checking if stereo wav files are faux-stereo (i.e. have identical channels) and converting such files to mono.
• rusty-amp — A complete guitar amp and pedalboard rig with external plugins support that runs right in your terminal.

CI/CD Runners

• Conveyor — Fast, secure, local-first CI/CD pipelines with a real-time TUI. DAG workflows, cron triggers, and artifact management powered by Rust.

Container Engines

• Nucleus — A high-performance, minimalistic container engine in Rust

Cryptocurrencies

• Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision — A Rust library for working with Bitcoin SV .
• cardano-cli — Cardano Command Line Interface (CLI)
• ChainX — Fully Decentralized Interchain Crypto Asset Management on Polkadot.
• coinbase-pro-rs — Coinbase pro client in Rust, supports sync/async/websocket
• ethaddrgen — Custom Ethereum vanity address generator made in Rust
• Grin — Evolution of the MimbleWimble protocol
• hdwallet — BIP-32 HD wallet related key derivation utilities.
• infincia/bip39-rs — Rust implementation of BIP39.
• Joystream — A user governed video platform.
• nearprotocol/nearcore — decentralized smart-contract platform for low-end mobile devices.
• Nervos CKB — Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, the common knowledge layer of Nervos network.
• Nimiq — Rust implementation of Nimiq node
• Parity-Bitcoin — The Parity Bitcoin client
• Parity-Bridge — Bridge between any two ethereum-based networks
• Parity-Ethereum — Fast, light, and robust Ethereum client
• Parity-Zcash — Rust implementation of the Zcash protocol
• Polkadot — Heterogeneous multi‑chain technology with pooled security
• rbtc — Convert BTC to any currency and vice-versa.
• rust-cardano — Rust implementation of Cardano primitives, helpers, and related applications
• Substrate — Generic modular blockchain template written in Rust
• wagu — Generate a wallet for any cryptocurrency
• zcash — Zcash is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol.
• Holochain — Scalable P2P alternative to